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This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I hereby request the following records:

- The most recent inventory of data hosted at Data.gov created on or before Jan. 19, 2017.- The most recent inventory of data hosted at Data.gov, as of the date your office processes this request.

Data.gov is managed by the U.S. General Services Administration, Technology Transformation Service.

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by email attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.

This message is to confirm your request submission to the FOIAonline application: View Request. Request information is as follows: (https://foiaonline.regulations.gov:443/foia/action/public/view/request?objectId=090004d281315ba2) * Tracking Number: GSA-2017-001029 * Requester Name: Joshua Eaton * Date Submitted: 05/17/2017 * Request Status: Submitted * Description: This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I hereby request the following records: (1) The most recent inventory of data hosted at Data.gov created on or before Jan. 19, 2017; (2) The most recent inventory of data hosted at Data.gov, as of the date your office processes this request. Data.gov is managed by the U.S. General Services Administration, Technology Transformation Service.

Good afternoon Mr. Eaton: We received your request in the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Office and assigned control GSA-2017-001029. Please refer to this number in all future correspondence concerning this request. Based on this, we anticipate response on or prior to June 15, 2017. We have twenty (20) workdays in which to respond (excluding Federal Holidays). However, it may not always be possible to provide the documents within this time period. In some cases, we may take an extension and will advise you. Please be advised that your request may be subject to fees for search, review and reproduction costs. Should this be the case, you will be given an estimate of the costs. All estimates are developed in Good Faith and are based on our reasonable judgment. However, due to the unique nature of each request and complexity of documents involved, actual costs to search and review the material may vary. You will be notified of fees, time frames and any other issues prior to and throughout the process. Additionally, please be advised that at any time, you can log into the FOIAonline, to access your original request and review the workflow associated with this-tracking number. Should you have any further questions, feel free to contact this office at our Toll Free Number 1-855-675-FOIA or by email at gsa.foia@gsa.gov to inquire about the status of your request. If you have any concerns regarding the FOIA Requester Service Center, please contact Ms. Audrey Corbett Brooks, Public FOIA Liaison Officer at (mailto:gsa.foia@gsa.gov) (202) 501-3094 or by email at audrey.brooks@gsa.gov . (mailto:audrey.brooks@gsa.gov) Respectfully, Freedom of Information Act Requester Service Center U.S General Service Administration 1800 F Street, Northwest, Room 7300 Washington, DC 20405 Toll Free number: (855)-675- FOIA Fax number: (202) 501-2727

This is in reference to your GSA Freedom of Information Act Request:GSA-2017-001029 , in which you requested "the following records:

(1) The most recent inventory of data hosted at Data.gov created on orbefore Jan. 19, 2017;

(2) The most recent inventory of data hosted at Data.gov, as of the dateyour office processes this request. Data.gov is managed by the U.S. GeneralServices Administration, Technology Transformation Service."

According to our subject matter expert, the requested information willresult in an extremely large file that we cannot just provide in anattachment or thumb drive. As a result, our only other option is to hostthe information as a dataset where we would provide you a URL link toaccess the data.gov inventory for both dates (most current and on dated onor before 1/19/2017).

Will this work for you? Please respond within 10 days of this email or6/13/2017 or we will determine that you are no longer interested and willclose your request.

If you have further questions, please contact me at 202-536-8144 or byemail at duane.fulton@gsa.gov. Thank you and have a nice day.

Respectfully,

GSA FOIA Requester Service CenterWasington DC Headquarter Office

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Good afternoon Mr. Eaton - After I sent to you the clarification thismorning, I had another conversation with the subject matter expert and as aresult, I have additional information I want to share with you as well asadditional information I need from you in order that we satisfy therequirements of your request.

Your request refers to "data hosted at Data.gov." Data.gov is a metadatacatalog, and contains metadata entries for approximately 200,000 datasets.In the vast majority of cases, the datasets are hosted at the websites ofthe participating organizations, not Data.gov.

Data.gov does have a limited capability to host some datasets and providesthis service to a small number of agencies. The data is hosted atinventory.data.gov, which is for the most part a non-public system exceptfor the URLs where the small number of datasets are available for viewingand downloading. The attached spreadsheet responds to your request aswritten, reflecting the list of datasets "hosted" currently at Data.gov,with the blue section showing resources added since 1/19/2017.

If your request was for a list of all the datasets included in Data.gov(meaning there is a metadata entry for it in the Data.gov catalog), we canprovide that as well, though the dates might not be exactly pre/post1/19/2017. As stated in my previous email, the responsive file would be toolarge to provide as an attachment or even on a Thumb drive but we should beable to post the file and provide you a URL if that is ok with you.

Please respond within 10 business days of this email or 6/13/2017 or wewill determine that you are no longer interested and will close yourrequest.

If you have further questions, please contact me at 202-536-8144<(202)%20536-8144> or by email at duane.fulton@gsa.gov.

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Good afternoon Mr. Eaton - This is a reminder that in order to completeyour request, we needed you to provide us with a response to our 5/31/2017clarification request. As of this morning, we have not heard back fromyou. Our 5/31/2017 email to you is provided below.

As a result, if we do not hear back from you by close of business (3:00pm)today, we will be closing your request.

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Good afternoon Mr. Eaton - Per our conversation and discussion concerningthe 2nd clarification (see email below), I have reopened your request andhave notified the responding Office that you would like to have a copy of theresponsive file posted on as a URL for you to access.

Since we had to reopen the file, we will need 20 business days from today'sdate, or until July 26, 2017 to respond to your request.

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GSA-2017-001029 has been processed with the following final disposition: Full grant. Given the nature of this request, some records are only being released to you as the requester. If you have an account in FOIAonline, you may access those records by logging into FOIAonline. Otherwise, those responsive records will be sent via the method agreed upon with the FOIA processor. (https://foiaonline.regulations.gov:443/foia/action/public/home?objectId=090004d281315ba2)